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hoopoe) The hoopoe is the sole member of its family, the Upupidae. With its orange-pink body plumage, boldly striped wings and tail, and huge, erectile crest, it is an unmistakable bird. It feeds mainly on the ground on worms, insects, and other invertebrates. Bird slightly larger than a thrush, with a long, thin, slightly downward-curving bill and a bright pinkish-buff crest tipped with black that expands into a fan shape on top of the head. The wings and tail are banded with black and white, and the rest of the plumage is buff-coloured. The hoopoe is found throughout southern Europe and Asia down to southern Africa, India, Malaya. (Species Upupa epops, family Upupidae, order Coraciiformes.)
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A bird asks the hoopoe how he can sustain his commitment to the journey in the midst of fear and loneliness, and after telling the bird to trust God, the hoopoe tells him two stories, one of a drunkard who berates another man for being a drunkard, and the other of a lover who only notices his loved one's deficiencies when his love has ceased. Now, many ancient Afghan children's stories, collected by author Idries Shah, are available through Hoopoe Books, a nonprofit publisher. Modern man, that methodical civil servant in the great bureaucracy of the world, mildly frustrated by the collapse of his 'scientific' world view, finally switches on his video recorder to watch Michael Jackson playing a vampire in |Thriller,' the best-selling videocassette in the history of the world, then goes into the kitchen to remove from a thermos flask--behind the backs of all animal-welfare societies--the still warm heart of a hoopoe. |
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